Sure, some of them are most likely fake. But some are not. And I can see why many folks might want that Harry Potter broomstick!
I once bought the Harry Potter broomstick in question as a gag gift for a female friend of mine who was a fan of the series.
The incredible Hulk toy looks a bit like Diggleblop.
SOme of those… yeah, just wrong. But I’m missing something on a few… what is wrong with Godzilla? (I’m going to be embarrassed soon, I fear)
I think he looks kinda cross-eyed.
He has the eyes of a Downs Syndrome child.
I don’t see that at all. I see the classic Godzilla/lizard eye ridge. Oh, well… some of those, though… not very well thought out!
I must be pretty dense, too - what’s wrong with the Twister bedspread?
Godzilla’s eyes are disturbing … and I think his nose is sort of penis-like! As for the Twister bed covering – I think it has to do with “naked Twister” and the shenanigans it leads to. Putting it on a kids’ comforter makes it look like a green zone for naughtiness.
Nothing, unless kids start playing Twister on the bed, lose balance, fall off and break a limb.
(I know…I sound like a nervous nanny!)
Some of those toys made me laugh, but I think the doll with the prosthetic limbs is a great idea. I bet a child who has undergone amputation surgery, or who was born with partial limbs, would find such a doll to be fascinating and comforting. Having a doll that looks like you is a big deal when you don’t look like everybody else. There are several such dolls here.
A friend’s daughter who endured months of chemotherapy had a hairless doll that she loved to play with. The doll even came with an “IV” that could be attached to her arm. This might strike some people as macabre, but it did a world of good for that little girl, who felt less freakish and alone because of the doll.
The one I don’t get is the second to last one. It’s the monster looking guy in a green shirt with red eyes. What’s so wrong about that one?
Apparently if you press his tummy he makes a motion that looks like he is jacking off.
The way we played it in college it became a very flirtatious and risque kind of game. I suppose if you think of Twister as a fairly sexual activity then the thought of pederasty follows from that picture. YMMV.
I didn’t get the Godzilla one either. I guess the eye thing didn’t jump out at me.
I don’t understand why anyone would produce an Incredible Hulk doll like that. Am I missing something? What was the original intent?
And, that last dinosaur toy is the same one that little N brought to our preschool group to share yesterday. His brother got it for his birthday. I don’t think anyone thought anything of it, though; it really only becomes funny when shown with all those others. See, you hold the dino by the tail and pull the trigger, and the dino snaps and chomps, making a hideous electronic chomp!graaaah noise.
When I think of a “fairly sexual activity,” pederasty is not the first thing that springs to mind.
I want to know what was up with Megatron.
I’d make weird noises too if someone grabbed me like that.
Twister should only be played in the nude, on the original plastic tarp spread with a thin coat of vegetable oil…
??? I have known many people with Down’s Syndrome, and none of them looked like that. I think that’s stretching to an extreme degree, to the point of total inaccuracy.